I agree, it's time to switch to the Unix password entry scheme. No feedback is good feedback!

Intel announced yet another delay for Tukwila, the next generation Itanium

Please tell me that's not an actual product name. (apologies)

The resource isn't "Not Found", it's "Gone". HTTP 404 is inappropriate in this instance.

Likely the best solution will be to ensure that people are notified first. If you're receiving a large number of hits, replace the content with a single RSS item that has a guaranteed-unique guid for every single request (say, based on the request time). This way, with each request, people will receive a "new" item that will display as unread, reminding them to unsubscribe from that particular feed.

After some amount of time, start returning HTTP 410 for all requests.

> force a bunch of stupid "notes" down the show-runner's throat ("Hey, can you bring in a sassy robot?

Hey, Bender made Futurama!

The editors gave a hat tip to Anonymous Coward?!

Obviously he was referring to Winamp HTML playlists being the first five pages of hits while searching Excite or Dogpile for your favorite artist/song.

...and a grammar checker. Its a shame.

I'm really surprised that with all the users they had, they are so quick to say "everything is gone and we're giving up"

Considering how complete and unrecoverable the loss is, they have no idea who their users are. The accounts would have to be recreated from scratch, but who would try? Their users have no reason to ever trust them again. Journalspace would have a difficult time wooing back their original users, and no new user would seriously consider using them.

Bowing out is the only recourse, but I'm glad they're considering releasing their source code.

With the ever-increasing amount of user data being stored on centralized servers, the research into anonymized data and de-anonymization algorithms, and the consistent loss of data due to human error, I expect personalized spam will become more and more prevalent (in whatever medium we use).